The personal information of 169 customers who each have over ¥100 million deposited in the Bank of Saga was likely stolen by a former employee and handed to a group of suspected criminals, bank officials said Monday.
The former employee, Atsushi Yoshida, 42, is on ...

In a surprise, nearly 70 percent of shoppers in a Fukuoka town agreed to provide their names, addresses, purchase histories and other personal information for the government's first experiment with electronic receipts, it has been learned.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, which conducted ...

One year after the debut of the government's My Number identification card system, less than a third of residents expected to be issued cards have actually received one.
The system, which assigns a number for social security and tax purposes, launched in January 2016. Funds ...

The government plans to draw up guidelines by the end of March aimed at getting companies to make more use of personal data such as customers' buying history.
The guidelines are expected to include rules for protecting individual rights, informed sources said.
Through the guidelines, the ...

Hokkaido University has revealed that the personal data of more than 110,000 students and graduates may have been leaked due to unauthorized access of its computer systems by unknown parties.
The university said Wednesday it believed a server at its career placement service center is ...

The nation’s pension system has been hacked, with more than a million cases of personal data leaked in an embarrassment that revives memories of a scandal that helped topple Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in his first term in office.